The grandchildren of one of the earliest Jewish victims of the Nazis are laying claim to a jewel of Israel's top museum: the world's oldest illustrated Passover manuscript.
Other
Apr 21, 2016
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As four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant suffered catastrophic cooling failures and exploded in March 2011, the world watched in disbelief. For Japan, this was not just the greatest nuclear disaster since ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 15, 2016
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Norwegian researchers are working on mapping the geology of Jan Mayen Island, Norway's most northwesterly territory. In the process, they also found ruins from Atlantic City, an American base from the Second World War.
Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2016
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A short animated film commissioned by two University of Kent historians challenges the concept that migration at current levels is a new phenomenon.
Archaeology
Feb 9, 2016
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Marvin Minsky, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who saw parallels in the functioning of the human brain and computers, died Sunday at age 88.
Other
Jan 26, 2016
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An Austrian university has posthumously stripped Nobel Prize-winning scientist Konrad Lorenz of his honorary doctorate due to his fervent embrace of Nazism.
Other
Dec 17, 2015
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Archeologists are having a field day in Poland's longest river, the Vistula, which because of a drought has hit a record low water level allowing them to uncover a treasure trove of ancient artifacts.
Archaeology
Sep 4, 2015
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As the World War I military draft brought to the forefront the high rate of venereal disease among the civilian population, states began to enact measures to quarantine people and begin forms of treatment to try to control ...
Social Sciences
Aug 24, 2015
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Officials investigating a huge explosion at a warehouse in Tianjin in China have discovered a store of 700 tonnes of sodium cyanide – more than 70 times the legal limit allowed. Cyanide has a particularly unpleasant reputation ...
Materials Science
Aug 18, 2015
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Several times this spring, coyotes made national headlines when spotted roaming the streets of New York, from Manhattan to Queens.
Ecology
Jul 2, 2015
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